Book Club Reading Guide: The Sunrise

In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about to open the island’s most spectacular hotel, where Greek and Turkish Cypriots work in harmony. Two neighbouring families, the Georgious...

Forty years on, lawyer Maria Hadjivasili, who escaped with her family, revisits her home town with author Victoria Hislop Mail on Sunday, October 12 by Victoria Hislop For “You” Maria Hadjivasili has the easy, relaxed glamour of a successful professional woman in her 50s. Divorced with a grown-up daughter, she...

The island writer on coming back to Lytham, writing, her new book and how maybe women should run the world. By Emma Harris @Eve_Writer_Emma Last time best-selling author Victoria Hislop came to Lytham, she really enjoyed it. So the Oxford-educated novelist is looking forward to returning again in less than...

Interview with the Cyprus Mail August 26, 2014 Successful British novelist Victoria Hislop is about to release her new book, set in Cyprus. THEO PANAYIDES meets a woman with a zest for life Victoria Hislop first came to Cyprus in 1978. That’s a story in itself. She was 18 going...